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Breakfast was up the road this morning. We found a nice little shop that did desayuno (breakfast) it was quite leisurely because although we’d booked out of Hostal Apolo they very kindly secured our bags until we were going to go to the Ship. Moving along we came to a clothes shop called Humana. Some […]
Read More Day one – onto the cruise shipUp at the crack of dawn to ready myself for the trip to Belfast international airport. Leaving at 7 to make sure that we reached there by 8 just in case there was more traffic. The mist (I call them low hanging clouds) was quite heavy in parts on the way and I wondered if […]
Read More Going and coming……It’s always a sad thing for me to say goodbye. It’s actually my trigger word to cry. Today was one of those days. I busied myself this morning finishing laying out the dress pattern we started yesterday. It was very pleasing to see that all the hard thinking paid off and the pattern matching, even […]
Read More Last day in Northern Ireland…Almost over was my first thought this morning as I rolled out of bed. At least this leg of the journey was. It seems Ike ages ago that I arrived on Dora’s doorstep for my very first week of watercolour tuition and yet it’s only four weeks. The plan today was to go and organise […]
Read More Day six in Northern Ireland…Was dozing in bed today when my cousins wife phoned me from downstairs!! We’d planned to go to Belfast on the bus and I needed to move the ‘bruised butt’ if I wanted to catch the bus in an hour. Launched out of bed and completed the morning rituals in time to jump in the […]
Read More Day four in Northern Ireland…The Wednesday was a relaxing day. I pottered around did some washing, hung out clothes and checked out the massive Koi that my cousin has in a converted greenhouse. Sadly most of them are gone and you can’t really see how big they get from this pic. There was one the last time I came […]
Read More The day I missed out in Northern Ireland…Day two in Northern Ireland and my cousin has organised for me to play a game at the Ballyclare golf club so I’m up early and ready by 6:30. I hadn’t been told the time but found out it was going to be 10:30. Breakfast done and just ready to go when I get the […]
Read More To golf or not to golf………Up and out to drs at ten. All good so the new antibiotics might clear up everything (hopefully) Next I’d like to see if my relatives are home. Knocking knocking but nobody there. So on to the next relation. YES. And it’s a surprise. Excellent. We caught up on family news and then we went […]
Read More Day one Northern Ireland….Another week of holiday completed. Packing sorted, so we grabbed the opportunity to have a walk through the local ‘jewel in the crown’ of Gateshead- Saltwell Park. A really lovely park. I even took a little movie of a grey squirrel. We said our goodbyes to my friends family who’d been our hosts and headed […]
Read More Another day-another country-Northern Ireland …..After a few drinkies last night I still woke at 5:30. So up and atem again. Sunday mornings down the quayside are a tradition in Gateshead and this market is pretty fine. Lots of choices of gluten free food of which I partook. A delicious crepe with blueberries, malt syrup, lemon and cinnamon. Yum. We […]
Read More Our last day in England….
Lady Boomer 